Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series - Peter Dear - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226139449 - November 25, 1995
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Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series

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This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed.


304 pages, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 25, 1995
ISBN13 9780226139449
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 304
Dimensions 229 × 154 × 23 mm   ·   482 g

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